IBM Edge 2015 (Las Vegas, NV)

IBM Edge 2015

Edge2015 brings Information Technology (IT) infrastructure innovation to life. Today, all functional organizations are expected to help their company grow. This means that IT management and IT infrastructure are being called upon to deliver value in new ways. IT must become a catalyst for fresh ideas and breakthrough thinking. Learn how to ‘spring’ ahead of the competition with new solutions that will help drive innovation and new revenue opportunities for your company.

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Kickoff Day 1
Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman kickoff day one of IBM Edge 2015. They discuss the upcoming topics and sessions about storage, analytics, the January announcement of the Z13 and how IBM is trying to turn R&D into productive products.

IBM Edge 2015 General Session Day 1
IBM Edge day one keynote address with Tom Rosamilia talking about the digital transformation with mobile and why it matters. Jorge Sanchez of Banorte shared the technology they are using within their bank. Dr. Steve Pratt of Centerpoint Energy provided insight into the technology they use and Jen Crozier of IBM discussed what the Smarter Cities Challenge is and how they helped cities solve challenges problems.

Wrap Up Day 1
John Furrier and Stu Miniman wrapped up day one of IBM Edge and discussed what all the buzz, including the mega trends of Docker, OpenPOWER, analytics and storage fit together. Stu shared what the key focus is for IBM now.

Wrap Up Day 2
Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman wrapped up day two at IBM Edge 2015. They recapped the many guests they talked to and information gleaned about how IBM is disrupting the industry.

Doug Balog
GM Power Systems, IBM

Interview Overview
Doug Balog stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier and Dave Vellante about the work to put OpenPOWER in the cloud and architectural changes. He provided insight into the key market shifts.

Jeff Barber
DS8000 Business Line Executive, IBM

Interview Overview
Jeff Barber stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about DS8000 and the huge transaction workload. He provided insight into the new features coming, including excellerating performance in analytics.

Alex Chen
XIV Executive, IBM

Interview Overview
Alex Chen and Oscar Lavina stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about connecting with other practitioners and the status update on IBM XIV. They provided insight into the simplicity and efficiency of XIV.

John Callisto
VP of Business Development, GlassHouse Systems, Inc.

Interview Overview
John Callisto stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman about receiving the Winning Edge Award for the third year in a row – this year in Power. He provided insight into the current trends and directions in Power.

Stefanie Chiras
Director of Scale-Out Power Systems

Interview Overview
Stefanie Chiras stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier and Stu Miniman about what IBM is doing to keep clients ahead of technology changes. She provided insight into the PureFlex portfolio versus the Pure Power.

Tom Cook
CEO, Permabit

Interview Overview
Tom Cook stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier and Dave Vellante about how IBM is walking the talk and how they are riding the wave of transformation. He provided insight into the field of engagement between Permabit and IBM.

Jen Crozier
VP Global Citizenship Initiatives, IBM

Interview Overview
Jen Crozier, IBM, and Mayor A C Wharton, Jr., City of Memphis, TN stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier about receiving an IBM Smart Cities Challenge Grant in order to weed out the non emergency calls from emergency calls. They provided details about also being awarded the Twitter Grant.

Donna Dillenberger
IBM fellow, IBM Research

Interview Overview: Donna Dillenberger and Ross Mauri
Donna Dillenberger and Ross Mauri stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman about how they listened to customers while developing Z13. They provided insight into how they are bringing transactional data and analytics together.

Interview Overview: Donna Dillenberger and Gustavo Stolovitsky
Donna Dillenberger and Gustavo Stolovitsky stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about Z13 analytics and how it can do analytics on a large amount of data. They provided insight into high performance computing and Gustavo’s keynote address.

Brad Elmenhurst
Director of Engineering Systems, Boeing

Interview Overview
Brad Elmehurst stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman about why he moved to South Carolina and the changes he’s implementing to create a “start up” feel and what’s driving innovation. He provided insight into what it means to fail fast.

Randy Frerking
Enterprise Technical Expert, Walmart

Interview Overview
Randy Frerking stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier and Stu Miniman about how they doubled the transactions going through the website each day. He provided insight into the cloud-based service application they created.

Jaime Gmach
CEO & President, Evolving Solutions

Interview Overview
Jaime Gmach and Tim Klubertanz stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about the partnership with IBM and how technology has evolved over the past 20 years. They discussed how they help customers and the industries they specialize in.

Interview Overview
Jeanine Graham-Bellamy and Mike Kuhn stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about how Flash is a transformational technology and how Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines is utilizing technology to change their entire company, including all six brands.

Eric Herzog
VP Marketing – Storage Systems, IBM

Interview Overview
Eric Herzog stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman about how IBM is focusing on Flash & hybrid, software defined and integrated infrastructure. He provided insight into the six components into the IBM Spectrum Storage family.

Larry Hess
CTO, Steel ORCA

Interview Overview
Larry Hess stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman about why he uses Z13 and how they allow clients to transition and grow on their time. He provided insight into his focus on the customer experience among other factors when recommending a solution to a client.

Jauder Ho
CTO, NTT Data

Interview Overview
Jauder Ho stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman about the new announcement around SAP HANA on Power. He provided insight into coming into the inflextion point of massive adoption.

Judith Hurwitz
President, Hurwitz & Associates

Interview Overview
Judith Hurwitz stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman about bringing together hardware and security and how it’s transformative. She provided insight into how to achieve a high level of unification and scalability.

Ken King
General Manager, OpenPOWER Alliances, IBM

Interview Overview
Ken King stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman about where he’s seeing momentum by opening up the platform. He provided insight into the growth of the ecosystem and how it’s delivering innovation into the market.

Tim Klubertanz
Solution Architect, Evolving Solutions

Interview Overview
Tim Klubertanz and Jaime Gmach stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about the partnership with IBM and how technology has evolved over the past 20 years. They discussed how they help customers and the industries they specialize in.

Steven Kradel
Director of Product Development, Coriell Life Sciences

Interview Overview
Steven Kradel and Scott Megill stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman about how they use genetic information to determine which medications will work for patients. They provided insight into how they build the technology from the ground up.

Mike Kuhn
VP of Flash Systems, IBM

Interview Overview
Mike Kuhn and Jeanine Graham-Bellamy stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about how Flash is a transformational technology and how Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines is utilizing technology to change their entire company, including all six brands.

Alicia Mancheno
Sales Operations Manager, Vodafone

Interview Overview
Alicia Mancheno and Juan J. de Santiago stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman about how they have partnered with IBM to offer services to a government with a tight budget. They provided insight into how they involved citizens in the transition process.

Scott Megill
CEO, Coriell Life Sciences

Interview Overview
Scott Megill and Steven Kradel stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman about how they use genetic information to determine which medications will work for patients. They provided insight into how they build the technology from the ground up.

Dr. Steven Pratt
CTO, CenterPoint Energy

Interview Overview
Dr. Steven Pratt stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman about utilizing technology to move energy to customers. He provided insight into methods that need to be in place to build infrastructure to pull in data from devices and how technology has transformed in the business over 135 years.

Tom Rosamilia
Senior VP, Systems, IBM

Interview Overview
Tom Rosamilia stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier and Dave Vellante about themes discussed in the keynote address and how digital transformation is shifting. He provided insight into what mobile enables.

Juan J. de Santiago
Alliances Director, Vodafone

Interview Overview
Juan J. de Santiago and Alicia Mancheno stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman about how they have partnered with IBM to offer services to a government with a tight budget. They provided insight into how they involved citizens in the transition process.

Interview Overview
Phil Schamberger stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman about their 18-year history working on the IBM Power Platform. He provided insight into the use cases working with clients.

Matthew Sheard
Enterprise Solution Architect, Mellanox

Interview Overview
Matthew Sheard stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier and David Floyer about OpenPOWER. He provided insight into the various innovation partners they have, the features of OpenPOWER and the value.

Steve Sibley
VP, IBM

Interview Overview
Steve Sibley stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante and John Furrier about the Open Power Initiative and characteristics of the enterprise. He provided insight into the new dynamic of scale out and enterprise grade.

Interview Overview
Gustavo Stolovitsky and Donna Dillenberger stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante about Z13 analytics and how it can do analytics on a large amount of data. They provided insight into high performance computing and Gustavo’s keynote address.

Jamie Thomas
GM Storage & Software Defined Systems, IBM

Interview Overview
Jamie Thomas stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier and Dave Vellante about the upcoming announcements around supporting cloud, big data, virtualization and accessing the control layer. She provided her vision for software-defined products.

Jon Toigo
Managing Principal Partner, Toigo Partners International

Interview Overview
Jon Toigo stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman about how he has tracked software defined for many years and capacity concerns. He provided insight into the history of data migration and being able to tier within a hyperconverged infrastructure.

Poornima Vijayashanker
Founder, BizBee & Femgineer

Interview Overview
Poornima Vijayashanker stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Stu Miniman and Sam Kahane about how she started Femgineer and how she has built an audience as a blogger. She provided insight into how her blog doesn’t hinder her and how someone working for a company can write about topics without disclosing sensitive information.

Terri Virnig
VP, Power Ecosystem & Strategy, IBM

Interview Overview
Terri Virnig stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier and Stu Miniman about what IBM is doing in the open source space, including big data and cloud solutions. She provided insight into how the open innovation message is translating into value.

Ed Walsh
CEO, Catalogic Software

Interview Overview
Ed Walsh stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman about how IBM Edge has grown over the past few years and the big announcement of integrating with IBM’s product line.

A C Wharton, Jr.
Mayor of Memphis & Head of Fire Department, City of Memphis

Interview Overview
Mayor A C Wharton, Jr., City of Memphis, TN and Jen Crozier, IBM, stopped by theCUBE and chatted with John Furrier about receiving an IBM Smart Cities Challenge Grant in order to weed out the non emergency calls from emergency calls. They provided details about also being awarded the Twitter Grant.

Marie Wieck
GM Middleware, IBM

Interview Overview
Marie Wieck stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman about how IBM has alligned around the buyer agenda. She provided insight into how to drive a compelling digital experience and deploy resources on the cloud.

Carla Wolfe
Senior Business Analyst, Elevations Credit Union

Interview Overview
Carla Wolfe stopped by theCUBE and chatted about Dave Vellante about winning the National Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award. She provided insight into how they reinvented the bank by incorporating business processes and working with their IT department.

Kirk Zaranti
Vice President, Logicalis

Interview Overview
Kirk Zaranti stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman about how they achieved consistency of deliverability by listening to their customers. He provided insight into the cloud strategy they implemented using the IBM Power Platform.